Trade-Ideas: Allergan (AGN) Is Today's Unusual Social Activity Stock

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Trade-Ideas LLC identified Allergan ( AGN) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Allergan as such a stock due to the following factors:

AGN has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 1.26 mentions/day.

AGN has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $365.8 million.

Identifying stocks with 'Unusual Social Activity' tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the 'talk of the town' stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn't matter if it's good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment. Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock's price trend.

Actavis plc develops, manufactures, and sells generic, brand, and biosimilar pharmaceuticals. It offers over-the-counter products. The company also provides biosimilar products in women's health, oncology, and other therapeutic categories. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 0.1%. AGN has a PE ratio of 47. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Allergan a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.